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Dawn C. Porter
Dawn Porter has been an assistant professor in the Information and Operations Manage-
ment Department at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern
California since the fall of 2006. She currently teaches both introductory undergraduate
and MBA statistics in the business school. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, from
2001–2006, Dawn was an assistant professor at the McDonough School of Business at
Georgetown University, and before that was a visiting professor in the psychology depart-
ment at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at NYU. At NYU she taught a number of
advanced statistical methods courses and was also an instructor at the Stern School of
Business. Her Ph.D. is from the Stern School in Statistics.
Dawn’s areas of research interest include categorical analysis, agreement measures,
multivariate modeling, and applications to the field of psychology. Her current research ex-
amines online auction models from a statistical perspective. She has presented her research
at the Joint Statistical Meetings, the Decision Sciences Institute meetings, the International
Conference on Information Systems, several universities including the London School of
Economics and NYU, and various e-commerce and statistics seminar series. Dawn is also
a co-author on 
Essentials of Business Statistics, 
2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2008.
Outside of academics, Dawn has been employed as a statistical consultant for KPMG, Inc.
She has also worked as a statistical consultant for many other major companies, including
Ginnie Mae, Inc., Toys R Us Corporation, IBM, Cosmaire, Inc., and New York University
(NYU) Medical Center.
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For Joan Gujarati, Diane Gujarati-Chesnut, 
Charles Chesnut, and my grandchildren, 
“Tommy” and Laura Chesnut.
—DNG
For Judy, Lee, Brett, Bryan, Amy, and Autumn Porter. 
But especially for my adoring father, Terry.
—DCP
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